Will “International Flight Attendant” be Replaced By Robots? 🤔

Job Description

Provide personal services to ensure the safety, security, and comfort of airline passengers during flight. Greet passengers, verify tickets, explain use of safety equipment, and serve food or beverages.

Job Details

• The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 53-2031.00
• The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 51,620.00
• The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 0.00
• Currently, there are 113,390 people on this job

☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Flight Attendants”.

Also Known As…

• Flight Attendants
• Purser
• Lead Instructor/Flight Attendant
• In-Flight Crew Member
• Flight Attendant/Inflight Supervisor
• Flight Attendant/Inflight Manager
• Flight Attendant/Air Transportation Supervisor
• Flight Attendant, Inflight Services
• Flight Attendant and Union Safety Chairperson
• Flight Attendant
• Ramp Flight Attendant
• Meal Attendant
• International Flight Attendant
• Flight Steward
• Flight Hostess
• Door and Arrival Attendant
• Airplane Flight Attendant
• Airline Stewardess
• Airline Hostess
• Airline Flight Attendant
• Airline Attendant

Tasks for “International Flight Attendant”

• Heat and serve prepared foods.
• Conduct periodic trips through the cabin to ensure passenger comfort and to distribute reading material, headphones, pillows, playing cards, and blankets.
• Verify that first aid kits and other emergency equipment, including fire extinguishers and oxygen bottles, are in working order.
• Administer first aid to passengers in distress.
• Reassure passengers when situations such as turbulence are encountered.
• Inspect passenger tickets to verify information and to obtain destination information.
• Answer passengers' questions about flights, aircraft, weather, travel routes and services, arrival times, or schedules.
• Assist passengers in placing carry-on luggage in overhead, garment, or under-seat storage.
• Check to ensure that food, beverages, blankets, reading material, emergency equipment, and other supplies are aboard and are in adequate supply.
• Take inventory of headsets, alcoholic beverages, and money collected.
• Assist passengers entering or disembarking the aircraft.
• Operate audio and video systems.
• Walk aisles of planes to verify that passengers have complied with federal regulations prior to takeoffs and landings.
• Greet passengers boarding aircraft and direct them to assigned seats.
• Announce and demonstrate safety and emergency procedures, such as the use of oxygen masks, seat belts, and life jackets.
• Sell alcoholic beverages to passengers.
• Direct and assist passengers in emergency procedures, such as evacuating a plane following an emergency landing.
• Collect money for meals and beverages.
• Prepare passengers and aircraft for landing, following procedures.
• Announce flight delays and descent preparations.
• Attend preflight briefings concerning weather, altitudes, routes, emergency procedures, crew coordination, lengths of flights, food and beverage services offered, and numbers of passengers.
• Prepare reports showing places of departure and destination, passenger ticket numbers, meal and beverage inventories, the conditions of cabin equipment, and any problems encountered by passengers.
• Determine special assistance needs of passengers such as small children, the elderly, or disabled persons.
• Inspect and clean cabins, checking for any problems and making sure that cabins are in order.

Related Technology & Tools

• Sliderafts
• Desktop computers
• Portable oxygen equipment
• Electrical circuit breakers
• Intravenous IV administration sets
• Notebook computers
• Life preservers
• Commercial cooking ovens
• Emergency locator transmitters
• Personal digital assistants PDA
• Smoke goggles
• Storage compartments
• Refrigeration units
• Blood pressure recorders
• Sphygmomanometers
• Cabin management systems
• Tourniquets
• First aid kits
• Cardiopulmonary resuscitation CPR masks
• Refreshment carts
• Automated external defibrillators AED
• Mechanical stethoscopes
• Heaving life lines
• Window exit escape ropes
• Epi-pens
• Water system shutoff valves
• Chemical oxygen generators
• Supplemental oxygen systems
• Cardiopulmonary resuscitation CPR equipment
• Emergency rafts
• Slideraft packs
• Halon fire extinguishers
• Protective breathing equipment
• Satellite aircraft communication systems
• Nitroglycerin tablets
• Self-inflating manual resuscitation devices
• Emergency exit doors and windows
• Flotation seat cushions
• Lavatory smoke detectors
• Evacuation slides
• Aircraft fire extinguishing systems
• Megaphones

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• SBS International Maestro Suite
• Microsoft Office
• Bid Assistant
• ValtamTech Flight Crew Log
• Arkitektia Flight Itinerary
• IBM Lotus LearningSpace
• Microsoft Word
• Microsoft Excel